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131Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff limit — The Tolman Oppenheimer Volkoff (TOV) limit is an upper bound to the mass of stars composed of neutron degenerate matter (neutron stars). It is analogous to the Chandrasekhar limit for white dwarf stars.The limit was computed by J. Robert… …
132Stationary state — In quantum mechanics, a stationary state is an eigenstate of a Hamiltonian, or in other words, a state of definite energy. It is called stationary because the corresponding probability density has no time dependence.As an eigenstate of the… …
